Unpublish-page or another status-field?

[eydun]

When building various templates such as webpages (or something else), do you usually add an additional boolean-field to be able to toggle the page to be "active" or not?

Or do you just use the built-in "Publish/Unpublish" status-field to control if the page should be active/visible?

I know it depends on the use-case, so this question is meant in general-terms best-practices how to use the status-field.

[gebeer]

The status can be used as active toggle. But, as you said, this highly depends on the use case. I have several sites where a separate 'active' checkbox field is required because in PageLister (like Pages->Find) those pages should appear for user roles other than superuser and not be striked-through.

[eydun]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I agree.

I find it a bit hard to find use-cases for unpublished pages, and also most often end with creating an additional boolean status-field.